Wake County, NC - Obituary of Edward S. Hughes, 1939

Edward S. Hughes, Texas Banker, Dies

Edward Smallwood Hughes, 75, Texas and New York banker, died Friday.

A native of Raleigh, NC, Hughes went to Abilene after his graduation
from Princeton in 1882 to become a merchant and later an investment
banker.

He was president of the Ed. S. Hughes Company of Abilene, the
Fellsmere Estates Corporation, both of Fellsmere, Fla., and chairman
of the board of Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railway Company, a Texas
railroad. He formerly was chairman of the board of the Farmers
and Merchants National Bank of Abilene. He maintained homes and 
offices in Abilene and New York city.

His sole survivor is a daughter, Elizabeth Graham Hughes. Funeral
services will be held Saturday at St. James' Protestant Episcopal
Church, with burial in Kenisco Cemetery, Westchester.

Source: Dallas Morning Herald - January 14, 1939

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